Walks through the seaside town of Brighton, England!

Lived in Brighton for a year+ and loved it! I'd love to map the places that are fondly in my memories - the shops, the lanes, the pubs, the clubs, the tea shops, the coffee shops, the clubs, the people...

Hello! My name is Victoria Nguyen and I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area, California! I'd also love to say I'm an aspiring Map Designer! :P I also go by MapWanderer, and maybe the name shows you how much I love maps. I'm just so fascinated by them - check out my recent blog post in honor of starting this class: http://mapwanderer.com/2013/02/18/map-maps-on-my-travels/

Why am I making this map? For fun? A client? A gift? To showcase my favorite places? Etc.

I definitely decided to do this for fun, but I want to eventually fine tune it and be able to print it out postcard size and share it with the friends I made in Brighton.

Why am I the expert to create this map?

Ok, so I won't say I'm an expert, but in the year+ I lived in Brighton, I definitely explored a lot of places. I was living right in the heart of the city centre, so it was a great jumping point for the town.

Who is my target audience?

Everyone! I want to share how great of a place Brighton is to visit, but I also want to use it to share with the friends that lived there with me so we could remember the good times. :)

Do I want my final project to be printed or digital? How is going to be used/held? What other constraints do I need to keep in mind moving forward? (Note type can be smaller on printed maps than when viewed on web)

Both! I'd love to share it online, but I also do want to eventually have it in a format that could be printed out from postcard size to poster size. With this in mind, I need a thin tip pen to really get into details!

My idea is to make the map more of a fun one. In addition to writing names, I want to do small icons, too. For example, there's a pub down the street called the Spotted Dog - I will want to draw a small, simple spotted dog as part of the "name". Street names? Yes, that'll be important.